GGJ-IEN DELEGATION TO DURBAN COP17

1000 DURBANS GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION - MARCH THROUGH DOWNTOWN DURBAN

GGJ and IEN brought a delegation of 14 people to the UNFCCC COP17 and social movement activities between November 28- December 9 in Durban, South Africa.

The climate talks were resounding disaster for the planet, and especially for Africa and small island nations. Without a binding deal to reduce emissions before 2020, the reality is that Africa will burn and island nations will begin to drown.

This is an even more brutal wake-up call to social movements that not only do we create real solutions, we must connect these solutions and push them to scale from the ground up. From small-scale organic family farming and resistance against toxic agribusiness, to the creation of millions of climate jobs and resistance against destructive dirty energy projects like the Keystone XL pipeline - between now and 2020 we must reduce carbon emissions and toxic pollution community by community, and demand that our government invest in the job creation, mitigation and adaptation funding necessary to address both the economic crisis and the ecological crisis.